Daguerreotypes - Giroux Daguerreotype Camera

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Giroux Daguerreotype Camera Alphonse Giroux, Paris, France
1839

Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer

The Giroux daguerreotype camera is the first commercially
manufactured camera, designed by L.J.M. Daguerre, the
inventor of the daguerreotype process, and manufactured
by Giroux, a relative of Daguerre's wife.
It is a slideing
or double box camera based on the experimental apparatus
used by Daguerre in perfecting the process. It uses a
15 inch f/15 achromatic landscape lens manufactured by
Chevalier, a Parisian optician and instrument maker.
According
to the collector Gabriel Cromer, this particular camera
originally belonged to Daguerre.